1.   Inadequate local health services for low-income groups and long queues of patients at hospitals have prompted health planners to explore the best ways of improving government health facilities.

2.   A former senior NHS manager at Aycliffe Hospital is urging health planners to put more mentally disabled people into private homes.

3.   A health policy planner for nine years, Holloway suffers from skin and prostate cancer besides the post-traumatic stress.

4.   Experts say there are cautionary lessons in Ohio for federal health planners.

5.   Health planners here concede that most of the obvious fat in the system has been sliced away, and simply demanding deeper cuts could compromise care.

6.   Some health planners have questioned the need for a hospital at that site.

7.   Working on these problems with incremental measures, step by step, is harder, some health planners say, but is probably all the political system can handle.

8.   Health planners say part of the problem in tackling polio is the lack of awareness among parents.